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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Reflections on the Novel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?
(a) All of the given answers.
(b) Humility.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Shame.

2. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?
(a) His own mother.
(b) His mother-in-law.
(c) His son.
(d) His wife.

3. According to Klossowski, "what we call crime must contain the key" to ___________.
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Sin.
(c) Societal aversions.
(d) Hope.

4. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?
(a) Prayer and love.
(b) Lust and love.
(c) Prayer and desire.
(d) Desire and need.

5. In March of 1793, how old was Sade?
(a) 47.
(b) 42.
(c) 53.
(d) 65.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the first novelists in Europe where "we dwell today"?

2. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?

3. Who wrote "Journees amusantes"?

4. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?

5. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?

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